2, 3, 25, 30 for the Queen asks!
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Oh, this is tough...defintitely one from the 70s, because 70s Queen is just a whole other level of amazing to me. I’m going to say “Queen II,” it’s beautifully complex and wonderfully structured and lets me discover new things on each listen. “Night at the Opera” and “Sheer Heart Attack” are close contenders though.
Hot Space. I don’t think it’s a bad album by any other group’s standards, I just don’t like it as a Queen album. I’ve ever listened to it all the way through in one sitting. It’s just not really engaging to me. I do adore “Las Palabras de Amor” and “Under Pressure” though.
25. Who introduced Queen to you?
You know what, I honestly couldn’t tell you. I’ve known about them for as long as I can remember. I probably picked up on them through my parents’ taste in music. I remember “Innuendo” being an album they played a lot...”Bijou” in particular was a song my Dad liked to listen to quite a bit, because he enjoyed the guitar on that track. I also remember him having the song ‘39 on one of his cassette tapes in our car when I was very young, but that was actually a funny case of me not knowing that was a Queen song until like....last year. Because Freddie wasn’t the one singing it.
30. Favorite Live performance?
Are we going by the entire concert or the performance of a song? Apart from Montreal, I don’t think I’ve watched an entire concert of theirs, because the live videos are often split up on youtube and so I just keep going back to my favourite bits. Probably “Somebody to Love” from Montreal...maybe that’s Basic of me to say, but it’s something I have actually watched so much over the years, long before I even took the full plunge into Queen fandom last year. The piano playing, the vocals...the energy of that performance! It just leaves me breathless.